[Closed] Drinking too much recently..

Cherry coke? Beer is probably healthier!

AJA though, I find ice cold soda water helps if I fancy a beer or 2...

I find ice cold soda water helps

I have taken to replacing my usual weekday beers (too many a night i'm ashamed to say, amazing how quickly it adds up to 5-6 beers and a most of a bottle of wine nearly ever day of the week). Anyway, for the last week i have started having a pot of decaff Earl Gray tea of an evening instead of reaching for the beers. damn sight healthier. My resting heart rate has dropped into the mid fifties from the mid sixties in less than a week, and I find i'm more alert and with it (funny old thing)
I have a works do on this weekend and friends coming to visit and i know i will be expected to drink. i will attempt to limit the damage though.

I've slipped into midweek drinking a bit too often this year. It doesn't help that beer and wine are so bloody tasty, does it?

Maybe we need a booze-related version of the chub club?

Maybe we need a booze-related version of the chub club?

I had been drinking too much recently (around 4 or 5 cans of beer a night, topped up with wine on a weekend too).

You have time to drink in the evenings,get you 😛 🙂
You need to get on the Winter Hobby thread and find something to distract you from all that beer 😉

I find I just need to keep busy doing positive things, not necessarily exercise just busy.

Did you read the [url= http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/alcohol-free-beer-1 ]Alcohol free beer thread[/url]?

We've recently cut down significantly - my intake was about the same as yours. Mrs Binners did a whole month off. I cut right down. I found that if I had an alcohol free beer while I watched the footy (or other event where you'd normally have a beer in your hand), you don't even register that you're not drinking.

Good luck with it. Its just a case of changing habits you've slipped in too

Hic.
Especially Friday nights...

Do you know what, an alcohol free beer or two tonight sounds like a bloody good idea actually. I will also get some extras in to be 'inbetweenies' for the weekend.
Have fallen into bad habits in the previous 6-9 months since im bloody exhausted in the evenings after a days work coupled with interrupted sleep due to junior arriving on the scene.
Post dinner, post tidy up whilst Mrs Tcomc puts nipper to sleep has become my collapse in the chair and drink beer time

I dont bother during the week, spin class at 7 on a Friday night so don't bother that night either.

Saturday I like a few beers after being out biking all day, Sunday night is a struggle not to have a glass or 2 of red and a couple of beers, prob dehydration from the days biking and beers after.

Then I'm knackered on a Monday!

I've slipped into midweek drinking a bit too often this year. It doesn't help that beer and wine are so bloody tasty, does it?

Maybe we need a booze-related version of the chub club?

same for me, it's become far too regular. Not pissed every night but far too much alcohol per week. Need to cut right back as it has become a habit.

I am another who swapped to alcohol free beer.
It's not witchcraft they just brew the beer normally then remove the alcohol and it's still cheaper to buy due to not being taxed heavily.

brewdog nanny state is the only alchohol free beer I have found that actually tastes of everything, might be worth a punt.

I am feeling the same. I only drink 1 or 2 a night, due to injury and a lot of work, but its starting to add up and I'm back up to my top weight. Really need to get back to only twice a week as I used too. Up for an alcohol chub club!

It's not witchcraft they just brew the beer normally then remove the alcohol

That is witchcraft!
Burn him!

Had a load of pints last night, probably in the region of ten.
Plus a couple of JD Fire shots.
Won the darts as well. 😀

But that Brewdog stuff is £4.50 for 4 x 330ml bottles (not seen it in larger cases). I normally get a case of 18 x 500ml tins of Kronenberg for £13 so it is significantly less.

And I don't drink alcohol for the taste, more the pleasant buzz, so I think I am better switching to soft drinks.

I have also bought some lemonade so I can cut my tins of lager in with that – a pint or two then is equal to just one tin and I will have had plenty to sip at whilst I fiddle with dinner in the kitchen.

tcomc1000 - Member
I have taken to replacing my usual weekday beers (too many a night i'm ashamed to say, amazing how quickly it adds up to 5-6 beers and a most of a bottle of wine nearly ever day of the week).

Im not judging here but how the hell do you function drinking that mount every night?

I read that as you are drinking 5-6 beers (cans, pints, bottles?) and a bottle of wine a night?

As a social drinker who doesnt drink at home (hey we we all have other vices so I am not judging!) that would put me on my arse and would be something I would consider a 'binge' drink night.

Do you think that if you sustain this level of drinking for a length of time that you a realistically starting to develop something of a dependency.

My OH's dad is well into late stage alcoholism, his life is F@cked because of it and he started out at a bottle of wine every other night, then every night, then beer and wine, now multiple bottles of wine and spirits.

Sorry if I have had a bit of a lecture there, genuinely interested in how people see their drinking habits though and what is 'acceptable'.

Come to Oman, if you can locate an affordable beer you can drink it.

I'm drinking too much. I blame the Tories.

Crankrider - the issue is that you can function on it - I can feel quite sober and hold a conversation when I have had too much. The only issue (and it is a big issue) is memory recall the next day. For example, I have been asked by my wife to do x, y or z then the next day I have forgotten the conversation until prompted which is, frankly, embarrassing and another reason I am cutting right back.

I also found myself laying in bed of a morning trying to run through the previous night's events (ie, what we watched on tv etc) in the hope I would be able to piece together the night and not forget something my wife might subsequently want to discuss.

My ex sister-in-law is well on her way to becoming a full-blown alcoholic - when she was with my brother he'd often come home to her 'finishing off last night's bottle of red' when in fact she had already done a full bottle by 6pm. He would often get calls from her asking to grab a couple of bottles on his way home and between them they regularly drank 4 bottles a night (as well as spend lots of time in the pub).

He has now stopped drinking altogether whereas she has taken to working in a local pub clearing glasses up in return for beer, then propping the bar up all day & night (regularly drinking from lunchtime onwards and being very drunk by early evening).

Im not judging here

Haha!

Interesting. I find myself wanting a drink most nights. Usually just a can of beer - though have now reduced to a 330ml bottle - or glass of wine. Aware that even that is too much, am now looking at one day on, one day off with Fridays and Saturdays drinking days. So no booze on Sundays, Tuesdays or Thursdays. That alcohol free idea sounds like a winner. Going to invest in some nanny state to give it a try.
Out of interest, does removing alcohol affect calorie content?

Being an ex drug user/addict I do worry about alcoholism. So during the week will only have one bottle of lager with dinner if that then anymore will be alcohol free. At the week end I will have literally a few beers no more as I don't enjoy being drunk as I used to.

Out of interest, does removing alcohol affect calorie content?

Alcohol is a whopping 7 kcal per gram so, yes, unless they are replacing it with beef tallow then I would have thought it would be considerably less!! 🙂

Becks 5%alc 275ml = 113 calories
Becks blue 0%alc 275ml = 39 calories

I have also bought some lemonade so I can cut my tins of lager in with that – a pint or two then is equal to just one tin and I will have had plenty to sip at whilst I fiddle with dinner in the kitchen.

Why is there a need to drink something anyway, can't you make dinner without drinking something? Not getting at you, just curious why you need to have a drink in some form or other.

Why is there a need to drink something anyway, can't you make dinner without drinking something? Not getting at you, just curious why you need to have a drink in some form or other.

My cooking inspiration comes from Keith Floyd.

You would be daft to replace beer with Cherry Coke, worse for your teeth and waste line.

Do you actually keep properly hydrated during the day? That will help take cravings away for liquid in the evening.

The alcohol free thread is good. I've settled on a combination of Becks Blue, Erdinger and Nanny State.

Do you actually keep properly hydrated during the day? That will help take cravings away for liquid in the evening.

Beer isn't liquid. It's beer.
I could drink water all day and I'd still want a beer. 😀

Im not judging here but how the hell do you function drinking that mount every night?

I read that as you are drinking 5-6 beers (cans, pints, bottles?) and a bottle of wine a night?

I picked up on that too. Like yourself, I don't want to judge but that is an awful lot of booze to my mind regardless of whether someone can function on it.

You would be daft to replace beer with Cherry Coke, worse for your teeth and waste line.

I picked up on that too. Like yourself, I don't want to judge but that is an awful lot of booze to my mind regardless of whether someone can function on it.

That's the whole point of the conversation. It's relatively easy to drink a bottle of wine every night with no obvious ill effects, plenty of hidden ones though.

https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/food-and-drink/irish-historian-in-cambridge-uncovers-drinking-habits-of-16th-century-ireland-1.3253756

No wonder the local church spire looks on the pish.

Well I'm not in a position to run a spreadsheet and send reminder emails, so I'd suggest we nominate a day of the week to post here (or in a new thread called "STW sober school nights club", or something snappier) with how many nights of the week we've been on the sauce?

I’ve been using the Drink aware app to record each day’s intake. It’s very basic, but I think that the simple act of recording your drinking helps you cut down a bit. For some reason I don’t want to ‘disapoint’ the app!

With me it’s mainly habitual - drinking is just something to do whilst watching TV. And there is nothing that goes with good food as well as a nice wine unfortunately.

Fizzy water and mango cordial is my main replacement.

Nobeerinthefridge - Member

Im not judging.

Haha!

Oh come on, im really not - Im not making sweeping statements about how much people should and shouldnt drink, just asking the question about what people think is 'acceptable' and how people feel when they do drink a lot regularly - How is life changed by it?

Some people seem to get very angry when anybody asks them about their drinking, are you one of those? (the name is apt here?) - Is it because they feel like noboy else has the right to tell them what to do (fair point) or because they know what they are doing is becoming an issue.

Im not going to tell people on the internet what I consider is'too much' to drink regularly - I just know that someone close to me will die in the very near future from alcohol abuse and the destruction it is and will bring.

Well I'm not gonna get into judging you for judging the OP, and I'm sorry to hear about your FiL.

I just think when someone volunteers that they're drinking a lot it's more productive to offer support than nag them about it.

Thinking about it I am judging. I'm judging 5-6 beers and a bottle of wine a day to be a lot of alcohol.

What I'm not judging is the individual and their situation. There but for the grace of god and all that.

what people think is 'acceptable' and how people feel

I know it is a huge amount. Work it out its over your weeks worth of units in a night and why i'm worried and posting about it and have had to go to zero.
same old story that is probably quite familiar but starts off with an occasional beer midweek, then sharing a bottle with the mrs. To then having a few pre bottle of wine beers, to suddenly realising you are having a few prior to the bottle, I must have been drinking 3/4 of the bottle myself, then one or two beers after the bottle.
Your tolerance really does build up, and feeling hungover becomes the normal.
Most years I abstain for months at a time (generally work related) but not had that chance this year so having to discipline myself.

I don't think there are hard and fast answers but there have been a lot of these threads over the years and people usually give good advice. For me filling my time, mainly with excercise, works pretty well at keeping me off the booze.

For me filling my time, mainly with excercise, works pretty well at keeping me off the booze.